> From: Alan Brinkman via EV <[email protected]> > To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List <[email protected]> > > I purchased a Harbor Freight flux core wire welder several years back... I > now have a larger welder mig/tig? with plasma cutting ability that I have not > set up yet because the Harbor Freight starter welder won't die.
HF has both crap and some quite nice stuff. You have to know what you’re shopping for. Their welding stuff seems to be good, much of it from Italy, rather than China. I have their inverter TIG welder that is amazing; my only gripe was lack of a foot pedal, so I wired in one! Unlike so many things these days, they actually supplied a schematic, and I could plainly see that the “volume control” was a common 5k pot, which is just what the Lincoln-style foot pedals use. With TIG, you want to start very hot, then back off to your normal welding current. I can’t for the life of me figure out how they expected you to do that with a panel-mounted pot while both your hands were busy… Jan _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
